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'''[[Heart]] transplant pathology''' is a niche in [[cardiac pathology]].
'''[[Heart]] transplant pathology''' is a niche in [[cardiac pathology]].
It comes in different flavours:
*Acute vascular rejection.
*Cellular rejection.
*Chronic rejection.
==Biopsy site reaction==
===General===
*Can be confused for rejection.
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Hemosiderin-laden macrophages.
*+/-Fibrosis/myofibre loss-replacement.
*+/-Scant inflammatory infiltration.
Image: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig6 Biopsy site (pathconsultddx.com)].
==Acute rejection==
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig4 http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig4]. Accessed on: 7 January 2011.</ref>
*Edema.
*Dilated small vessels.
*Scant inflammatory infiltrate.
Image:
*[http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig4 Acute rejection (pathconsultddx.com)].


==Cellular rejection==
==Cellular rejection==
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==Chronic rejection==
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>URL: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig5 http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig5]. Accessed on: 7 January 2011.</ref>
*Concentric intimal thickening.
*Preservation of internal elastic lamina.
Image: [http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675%2806%2970592-7&figureId=fig5 Chronic rejection (pathconsultddx.com)].
Notes:
*Vague similar to atherosclerosis.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Heart]].
*[[Heart]].
*[[Lung transplant pathology]].


==References==
==References==
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